SURJAN SUPER SCHOOL NEWSLETTER WEEK OF JANUARY 16, 2026 Theme: The Concrete Bouquet & The Knitted City INTRODUCTION: THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF OPTIMISM We are mid-January. The city is gray, the trees are bare, and the studio has collectively decided to rebel against the winter. Our prompt this week was simple: What if infrastructure bloomed? We are moving past the idea of "green architecture" (which usually just means gluing a bush to a balcony) and entering the era of Floral Tec

SURJAN SUPER SCHOOL NEWSLETTER WEEK OF JANUARY 9, 2026 Theme: The Graphic City & The Copper Playground INTRODUCTION: ARCHITECTURE AS TYPOGRAPHY We are one week into 2026, and the resolution in the studio is clear: No more beige. If last week was about "Fluid Brick," this week is about "Hard Graphics."  The latest output from our AI explorations suggests a city that reads like a billboard or a comic book. We are seeing buildings that don't just sit in the background; they wink

SURJAN SUPER SCHOOL NEWSLETTER WEEK OF JANUARY 2, 2026 Theme: The Year of Fluid Stone & The Waffle Hearth INTRODUCTION: 2026 — MAKE IT HEAVY, MAKE IT SOFT Happy New Year. If 2025 was about the "image," 2026 is going to be about the "material." We often associate AI and parametric design with weightlessness—shiny plastics, impossible cantilevers, and thin meshes. But the most compelling work coming out of our studio this week explores the opposite: Mass. We are asking a specif

SURJAN SUPER SCHOOL NEWSLETTER WEEK OF DECEMBER 26, 2025 - PART 2 Theme: The Soft Invasion: Radical Cute as Urban Strategy INTRODUCTION: ARCHITECTURE AS DOPAMINE In Part 1, we discussed how to keep the city dry. In Part 2, we are asking how to keep the city happy . The winter in New York is gray, rigid, and cold. The second series of explorations from our studio this week proposes a counter-narrative: The Soft Invasion.  We are looking at "parasitic" facade retrofits that tre

SURJAN SUPER SCHOOL NEWSLETTER WEEK OF DECEMBER 26, 2025 - PART 1 Theme: The Pneumatic Vernacular & The Gilded Glitch INTRODUCTION: THE CITY WITH WET FEET As we stare down 2026, our studio has been obsessed with a singular architectural problem: Buoyancy. Manhattan has always been a negotiation between bedrock and water. But as our shorelines become more unpredictable, our architecture must become amphibious. The images we generated this week explore a new typology I’m callin

SURJAN SUPER SCHOOL NEWSLETTER WEEK OF DECEMBER 19, 2025 Theme: The Diagram as a Machine for Joy INTRODUCTION: THE RIGOR OF WHIMSY As we close out 2025, the debate in our studios often circles back to a single question: Can serious architecture be fun? For too long, "technical" documentation—plans, sections, axonometrics—has been synonymous with the sterile and the gray. But if we look at the lineage of Archigram or the poetic masques of Hejduk, we know that the diagram is no

SURJAN SUPER SCHOOL NEWSLETTER WEEK OF DECEMBER 12, 2025 Theme: Radical Joy, Modular Systems, and The Chromatic City School is in Session. As we move deeper into December, the natural inclination of the architectural world is often to retreat into the cozy, the dark, and the enclosed. At Surjan Super School, we are doing the opposite. This week’s curriculum is a counter-manifesto to the winter grey. We are exploring Radical Joy  through structural rigor. We are asking: What h

SURJAN SUPER SCHOOL NEWSLETTER WEEK OF DECEMBER 5, 2025 Theme: THE NOMADIC THEATER — Architecture as Actor, City as Stage I. INTRODUCTION — WHEN THE BUILDING WALKS In this issue, the city ceases to be a static grid and becomes a performance space. The architecture is no longer fixed to the ground; it is visiting. These images perform an interruption of the urban script: the skyscraper is challenged by the hut, the concrete is softened by moss, and the plaza is occupied by wo

SURJAN SUPER SCHOOL NEWSLETTER - THANKSGIVING EDITION WEEK OF NOVEMBER 27, 2025 Theme: “WHAT SURJAN IS THANKFUL FOR THIS YEAR” I. OPENING NOTE — A SEASON OF GRATITUDE This Thanksgiving, Surjan Super School pauses to acknowledge the immense, dazzling network of people, ideas, tools, images, and transformations that shaped this year. It has been a year of expansion , experimentation , model-cities , AI architectures , new pedagogies , and an ever-growing visual universe that